Posted on 04/20/2006 1:59:51 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
Is there a lack of services outside the city in the countryside? What do they expect, a public library and concert hall every five miles?
It is never NOT rush hour in Atlanta!!!
Or like the city slickers moving to the rural area where I live complaining about the cows mooing at night.
He and 11 of his friends built an 18 hole golf course on the hillside at the Gold Coast, Hawaii, for their exclusive use. They developed their own water, roads, security, etc. Not one cent was required by local government. Schwab also built a huge home on the oceanfront under the same conditions. He is a great neighbor, pays his exorbitant property taxes, pays his staff well and does not get involved in local politics. Schwab and the like are not the problem.
They are escaping the 'smart growth' people warehouses. They are terrible places for people and children.
This type of housing is pushed by people who are the antihumans, IMO, in the federal government, and it is mushrooming up in every city in the country due to EPA, DOT and various state agencies funding it. It gets its cue from the United Nations conference on human habitation from back in the late 1990s.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Could they be escaping from liberalism?
The only possible reason I can see why anyone would live in a large city would be for the employment. I'm retired but I moved from a large city 30 years ago. I just didn't need the aggravation. Right now I'm living in a small town in East Texas with a population of 18,000. I have everything I need right here and I don't have to drive all over Kingdom Come. I just don't get these big cities. What's the advantage? I don't see any. I'm on the internet. I get all of the television programming. All the shopping I need is close in. My car dealer is a mile away. Hospital is across the street. Restaurants aplenty. What I can't find locally, I can get off of ebay or Amazon. The P.O., UPS and FedEx comes to my door.
I don't get it. Who needs the aggravation, lousy weather, ice and snow up to one's butt. Doesn't make any sense to me.
It sounds to me like everyone else is just now figuring out what we in the South already know. :)
Best move I ever made.
"I'd prefer Arizona or Nevada to Florida. No need to worry about hurricanes!"
Point taken. OTOH, our sand ends at the water, your sand ends at the .... sand.
"Just moved to Scottsdale ~Bump!"
TeePee's has very good MX food; Indian School and some numbered street. That's where GW went to eat while in Phx!
If you gave every man, woman and child in the United States a quarter acre of land each to live on, you would use up less than half the land in .... Texas. Yep. Do the math. "Sprawl" has been oversold.
You are correct they have moved to the Triangle here in NC and bringing their stupid ass ideas on how us dumb ole southerners should do things..
The problem, of course, is that many people who escape the parasite nests - - nests they largely fouled by voting Democrat - - bring their voting tendencies with them out to the suburbs and rural areas.
What a beautiful area! We leaving California and moving to an area called Cherokee Village, Arkansas....
And it's also a bit of heaven!
Good luck finding an open store at 2am for that special bottle of J.D. (for medicinal purposes, of course)
What all you guys are missing is the 2010 and 2020 census. Lets say Northeastern states see a 10 percent drop in population, and LA residents finally give up and start moving toward Arizona and Las Vegas. The electoral college vote will shift even more away from liberal states to "red" states. We already can guess that the population in Mass...in 2010...will be less enough to take away one more representative...and Louisiana may lose one if the New Orleans folks don't move back by then. So what about 2020? I could see Blue states losing 5 or 6 representatives...and it becomes even more difficult for a democrat to win unless he's some southern governor who is popular.
There are major implcations by this story...we ought to forecast ahead.
So what! I'm never out at 2 am! Who needs stores open every hour of every day???
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